Post-Event Update

Over 1,500 students learned about the first and most western settlement of the Louisiana Purchase during these presentations. They had studied about Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike earlier this year. Uniformly they were interested in the village, especially as I related what life was like there for the nine orphan children, Native American children associated with the drowning of Joseph Chorette, slave children and others living at the village. One young man was so caught-up in the moment that he asked during the question and answer session, “Did you meet Lewis and Clark?”

Stacey Guess, DISD Social Studies Coordinator sent me the above picture with Dr. Dean Anthony, McNair Elementary Principal, introducing me with an hearing impared translator working at my left. We met in cafeterias and gyms throughout the Districts 15 schools with a 100 or more students attending each time. The three-day schedule was filled with excitement and anticipation. Plans are to repeat this event next year, perhaps to include my presenting information on LARRY, my next book title, about an exceptional amateur naturalist who helped save three endangered species, the Whooping Crane among them.